EV reality doesn't matter here, man.  Every day the quota is either one article complaining about EVs or Elon Musk.

My parents took advantage of the crazy cheap Hyundai leases offered recently.  Ioniq 5 for 279/mo for three years.  They couldnt be happier.  We would too, but we have functioning and paid off cars.  We do NOT want a massive vehicle.  Just a modest EV to get us around town.

Ford would sell the daylights out of an EV Maverick. But they are selling the daylights out of the ICE version. They’d have to convert a different factory. Plus, let’s not pretend that Made in Mexico isn’t a huge reason the Mav is priced as competitively as it is.

Agreed 100%, now tell that to the greedy carmakers. It’s another reason why I want Chinese EVs to come here, just to royally fuck over domestic carmakers who can’t for the life of them make a cheap EV. Chevy had the Bolt and it was a hit, but they killed it for a more expensive Blazer, and still no word on when the…

$25k or less is the key. Unless you make a lot of money or have used the credit before, if you can get under $25k, you can get 30% off/up to $4k max from a used 2+ year old EV. If you need a car, a used Model 3 is a worthy option now, it’s actually cheaper than an equivalent year/miles Camry after incentives.

Screw the virtue signalling, the acceleration, quiet, and charging at home are damn nice.

People Want EVs They Can Actually Afford

Agreed. Manufacturers keep trying to screw the consumers over by jacking up prices and playing games, then go all confused pikachu when consumers walk away and the product sales fall off.

Thanks to Tesla price drops and Hertz Electric sell-offs, Model 3s can be had for $25k all over AutoTrader. And if you hunt you could get one w/sub 20k on the odometer as well. 

That’s not really the point.  Manufacturers are ignoring viable potential buyers and the EVs they might actually want to chase a segment of the market which is largely predisposed to discount electric on its face.  It’s a self-defeating exercise brought about in the interest of trying to lock in the highest margins…

My boss recently got a RAV4 Prime. Using his wall outlet charger at home and in the office, he’s had it for over 1,000 miles and still hasn’t filled up the tank.

Ford kept increasing the price of the Lightning by multiple, multiple thousands of dollars every quarter. People were not willing to pay $70,000 for the exact same truck their neighbor paid $40,000 for. Also the winter range was abysmal.  If ford had never changed the price and the cold weather perfomance of the…

PHEV FTW. 

I think this is backwards:

This is why the Rivian R3 actually excites me a little. The prospect of an electric car where I live (very rural mountain area with little infrastructure) are dire at best. Having a sub $40K option with AWD and a range of 300 miles would make an EV a reality instead of a challenging option.

Oddly, despite our house being 125 years old, we have a pretty different situation. 100 amp panel, but there’s already a disused 240v circuit to our laundry room which now has a gas dryer. The outlet is directly inside of where I would mount a charger on the side of the house anyway. We also have a gas hot water…

That up-front cost would add to the value of your home as well as be amortized over the lives of any and all future EVs you had, not just the first, so boiling it down to the 161,550 miles driven requirement isn’t the full picture.  (Not to mention the not-burning-gas-anymore part, but I appreciate that this is…

The Venn diagram for those who crave the biggest, most massive bro-dozer truck and those who care about the environment are 2 separate circles.  Do all these auto marketing groups not know this??

That 200/Month deal on the EV Kona is a perfect sweet spot.

Counterpoint: Isn’t the F-150 the #1 selling vehicle in the US every year?